Sims 4 Gets New (Expensive) Expansion

What? EA is doing something? Who wants to bet it pisses people off?

I hope you didn’t take that bet, because if you did it seems I’d owe you: as seemingly the only EA apologist not currently on their payroll, time and time again I’ve tried to suggest they’re capable of good things, and every time they disappoint me… maybe that’s why I’m so keen on them, they remind me of my dad.

Oh well. At least this time they’re not bending the whole culture over their knees and giving us a good whacking—it’s only Sims fans, and they kind of deserve it, so it all works out.

EA announced today a new expansion pack for The Sims 4: and about time too! I’m sure everyone was getting sick of all that free content they’d been getting last October, November and December! This new expansion pack, called “Get to Work”, adds a great giant chunk to your Sims 4 experience by allowing you to follow your Sims to work and watch them earn a living in their profession of choice and will be released March 31st. But you might have to “get to work” to afford it, because this expansion pack costs nearly as much as the vanilla game did, sitting at 40 bucks.

It’s quite a steep price tag, but for Sims fans, it’s actually not unprecedented—expensive expansion packs are kind of the norm (especially for the ill-famed Sims 3, which was more expansion pack than game). But that doesn’t mean it’s a lot of money. The question you have to ask, then, is if it’s worth it… and to that, as a non-Sims player, I’d have to give that a solid ‘no’.

In the Sims 4, your characters have jobs, but all that really amounted too was making them vanish for a period in the day before they trundled on home with a plethora of added stress and cash. “Get to Work” adds four new careers—Doctor, Detective, and scientist, and retail entrepreneur—and gives you the option to join them in their office and affect their personal lives as much as you affect their private lives. Okay, that sounds nice, but apparently none of the other jobs will get a similar treatment, so they’ll just stay the same old “vanish for a bit then come back” deal. EA did say they might add more jobs that let you visit an office, but it wasn’t a promise, more of a suggestion.

So, what else does this expansion include? More skills and the possibility of running into aliens.

...and yeah, that about covers it.

There are certainly meatier expansion packs that cost less out there, but who knows—maybe you’re so emotionally invested in your Sim, seeing them go to work is worth a 40 dollar ticket. No judging here, just envy at all your disposable income.